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meatspace

A slightly derogatory online term meaning the real world, where beings made of meat live. The opposite is cyberspace. It was created around the early 90s by the hacker community when they wanted to specify that they were talking about their real lives and not their online identities.

Some people find the term reductionist and offensive, as they do not appreciate being referred to as meat, a term usually reserved for the flesh of dead animals.

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